Hirwaun in the Parishes of Aberdare and Penderyn (Breconshire)
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"HIRWAIN, a village and a chapelry in Aberdare parish, Glamorgan. The village stands near the boundary with Brecon and the watershed of the Cynon, on the Vale of Neath railway at its junction with the Taff Valley railway and with the branch to Merthyr-Tydvi1, 4 miles NW of Aberdare; ... " [From John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) on A Vision of Britain through Time.]
Archives and Libraries
Hirwaun Library
High Street
Hirwaun
CF44 9SW
Bibliography
References to the town of Hirwaun at
- The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Church Records
For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office and/or West Glamorgan Archives
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
Parish formed in 1886 from Aberdare and Penderyn (Breconshire)
Hirwaun, Penderyn Church - See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph
The church is dedicated to St. Lleurwg, is in the Benefice of Hirwaun, and Diocese of Llandaff. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be found at grid reference SN958056.
Anglican Parish Registers Held at the Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff | ||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | Banns | Bishops Transcripts |
1858-1944 | 1884-1941 | - | - | - |
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
- Hirwaun Ecclesiastical Parish records "Hirwaun is a modern parish within the rural deanery of Aberdare in the diocese of Llandaff. St. Lleurwg's church, Hirwaun, was first erected in 1858 as a chapel of ease to Aberdare and was restored in 1884. The ecclesiastical parish of Hirwaun was created in 1886 from the civil parishes of Aberdare in Glamorgan and Penderyn in the county of Brecon"
"Hirwaun Ecclesiastical Parish records including registers of baptisms, 1858-1944; marriages, 1884-1941; banns, 1899-1960; services, 1877-1919; marriages licences, 1919-1957; certificates, 1940-1957; terriers, 1910-1919; churchwardens accounts, 1897-1911; miscellaneous, 1858-1921; church affairs, 1886-1942; church organisations, c1905-1930"
Non Conformist Registers Deposited | |||||
Chapel | Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | OS Map Ref | Deposited/ Copies |
Nebo, Congregational | - | - | 1824-1835 | SN 95890551 | PRO |
Blaen-gwawr, Soar, Wesleyan | 1857-1933 | - | - | SN 95800567 | NLW |
Blaen-gwawr, Soar, Wesleyan* *not on WGAS online list |
1966-1968 | - | - | SN 95800567 | WGAS |
Blaen-gwawr, Soar, Wesleyan | - | 1971-1984 | - | SN 95800567 | GRO |
GRO - Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff
NLW - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
WGAS - West Glamorgan Archive Service
PRO - Public Record Office, London
Description and Travel
Photographs of Hirwaun - on Aberdare online
Hirwaun - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail site
Hirwaun - on Wikipedia
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Aerial photograph of Bryn Du Gas Works, Hirwaun, 1992
- Various landscapes
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Occupations
Tower Colliery, Hirwaun on the Miners' Advice site
Tower Colliery, Hirwaun on the Welsh Coal Mines site
Francis Crawshay's Workers - The sixteen men in these little portraits all worked for Francis Crawshay (1811-1878), a reluctant industrialist, who maintained unusually close personal relationships with his employees.
In the mid-1830s, Francis was in charge of the Hirwaun Ironworks, acquired by his father, the great ironmaster William Crawshay II, in 1819, and of the family’s recently enlarged tinplate works at Treforest, near Pontypridd.- on People's Collection Wales